‘Six-Figure’ Medical Marijuana Printer On The Way

Lev Goukassian, owner of the Nirvana Pharmacy, a medical marijuana shop in Los Angeles, California, works on his products on March 24, 2010. There are hundreds of medical marijuana shops operating across the city, and a new ordinance from City Hall caps that number at 70, but grants a reprieve to the 187 medical marijuana dispensaries whose operators registered with the city prior to a moratorium. The ordinance requires that dispensaries be at least 1,000 feet away from schools, public parks, public libraries, religious institutions and other so-called ``sensitive use'' sites. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

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LANSING (AP) – The state of Michigan has ordered a new printer that will allow it to produce 4,000 medical marijuana cards a day.

Rae Ramsdell, who oversees the program, says 40,000 people who don’t have cards have been given a tamper-proof letter to show they’re qualified to use marijuana for medicinal purposes.

More than 131,000 people have been approved for marijuana. Thousands more serve as caregivers, who are allowed to grow marijuana for up to five people.

Ramsdell says the new printer should be ready by mid-March at a cost of “six figures.”